The Effect of Working Hours on Health

Inés Berniell and Jan Bietenbeck

No 1703, CINCH Working Paper Series from Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, Competent in Competition and Health

Abstract: Does working time causally affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which reduced the standard workweek from 39 to 35 hours, at constant earnings. Our empirical analysis exploits variation in the adoption of this shorter workweek across employers, which is mainly driven by institutional features of the reform and thus arguably exogenous to workers' health. Difference-in-differences and lagged dependent variable regressions reveal a positive effect of working hours on smoking and a negative effect on self-reported health. Results are robust to accounting for endogenous job mobility and differ by workers' occupations.

Keywords: Working Hours; Health; Smoking; BMI (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I12 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2017-03
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